Buda's wagon : a brief history of the car bomb /
Davis, Mike, 1946-
Buda's wagon : a brief history of the car bomb / Mike Davis. - x, 228 pages ; illustrations, 22 cm.
Wall Street 1920 -- Poor man's air force -- Preliminary detonations -- Oranges for Jaffa -- Our man in Saigon -- Festivals de plastique -- Demon seeds -- Welcome to Bombsville -- "The black stuff" -- Laughing at the dead -- Hell's kitchen -- the Beirut Hilton -- Car-bomb university -- The suicide tigers -- Soft targets -- Los coches bomba -- Cities under siege -- Form follows fear -- Killing Bush, bombing Oklahoma -- Planet Jihad -- The King of Iraq -- The gates of hell.
Celebrated urban historian, Mike Davis returns with a compelling account of the 'poor man's airforce', from Vietnam to Beirut.
9781844671328 (hbk.) 1844671321 (hbk.) 9788170463283
2007274127
GBA704964 bnb
013645944 Uk
Vehicle bombs--History.
Vehicle bombs--Social aspects.
Terrorism--History.
Terrorism--Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
TP270 / .D367 2007
623.45209 DAV / 016883
Buda's wagon : a brief history of the car bomb / Mike Davis. - x, 228 pages ; illustrations, 22 cm.
Wall Street 1920 -- Poor man's air force -- Preliminary detonations -- Oranges for Jaffa -- Our man in Saigon -- Festivals de plastique -- Demon seeds -- Welcome to Bombsville -- "The black stuff" -- Laughing at the dead -- Hell's kitchen -- the Beirut Hilton -- Car-bomb university -- The suicide tigers -- Soft targets -- Los coches bomba -- Cities under siege -- Form follows fear -- Killing Bush, bombing Oklahoma -- Planet Jihad -- The King of Iraq -- The gates of hell.
Celebrated urban historian, Mike Davis returns with a compelling account of the 'poor man's airforce', from Vietnam to Beirut.
9781844671328 (hbk.) 1844671321 (hbk.) 9788170463283
2007274127
GBA704964 bnb
013645944 Uk
Vehicle bombs--History.
Vehicle bombs--Social aspects.
Terrorism--History.
Terrorism--Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
TP270 / .D367 2007
623.45209 DAV / 016883